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Three myosin heavy-chain isozymes appear sequentially in rat muscle development

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Three different heavy-chain isozymes of myosin appear sequentially in rat muscle during the period from late gestation to about three weeks of age. In part these changes can be related to changes in innervation taking place during this period.

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  1. Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, 25, Rue du Dr Roux, 75724, Paris, France

    Robert G. Whalen, Susan M. Sell & Gillian S. Butler-Browne

  2. INSERM Unité 127, Hôpital Lariboisière, 41, Bd de la Chapelle, 75010, Paris, France

    Ketty Schwartz & Pierre Bouveret

  3. Département de Biologie, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, 91190, Gif sur Yvette, France

    Ingrid Pinset-Härström

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Whalen, R., Sell, S., Butler-Browne, G. et al. Three myosin heavy-chain isozymes appear sequentially in rat muscle development. Nature 292, 805–809 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/292805a0

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